Fawlty powers: one-star service in the English courts by Dickinson, A

“…Lady Brownlie instructed English solicitors, who, in June 2010, wrote a letter before action to the legal department of “Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts” in Canada. After that department had forwarded the correspondence to the hotel in Cairo and to the vehicle hire company, the Egyptian legal representatives of the hotel responded that the proper defendant was neither “Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts” nor “the Four Seasons Hotel, Cairo at Nile Plaza” but the vehicle hire company and its driver. …”